The chatter inherent in this week on the NBA calendar — the days leading up to the draft, a week or so before free agency — is as loud as ever.
Big trades, the draft (with teams looking to move up, down or completely out), rumours and innuendo, misdirection and misinformation. Every player looks good, everyone’s a good fit for any number of teams, all the talk one could imagine.
But what’s talked about and reported and what actually happens are often entirely different things, a fact that should not be lost as we await Thursday night’s draft in Brooklyn.